DISCRIMINATION is the treatment of people based on their belongings to a class or category rather than on individual merit.
The Constitution protects citizens from racial and religious descrimination.
RACISM is the belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability. It is believing that one race is superior to another.
PREJUDICE is an adverse judgment or opinion formed unfairly or before one knows the facts; a bias. Prejudice is irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular race, religion or group.
What is Injustice?
INJUSTICE is a lack of justice; unfairness; a wrong.
Literacy Tests
Prior to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1965, Southern (and some Western) states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures whose primary purpose was to deny the vote to those who were not white. In the South, this process was often referred to as a "literacy test." In fact, it was much more than a simple test, it was an entire complex system devoted to denying African-Americans (and in some regions, Latinos and Native Americans) the right to vote.
Where do persidential electors cast ballots for president?
Name one area of authority over state militia reserved exclusively to the states.
The power of granting patents, that is, of securing to inventors the exclusive right to their discoveries, is given to the Congress for the purpose of _?
The only legal tender which may be authorized by states for payment of debt is __?
How many seeds are there in a watermelon?
The bus driver made the black people move so the white people would have a better place to sit and Rosa Parks refused.
-- natalie 61
Some of the white government made it so the blacks could not drink from the same water fountain, sometimes they were not aloud to drink out of any fountain at all.
Cory Lyons-
In 1957 the governor of Arkansas made the National Gaurd prevent 9 students from entering the school.
-Julianne Mulvey
The ku klax klan would burn down black peoples land and hurt alot of black people.
~Jamie 61
Examples from the Book
DISCRIMINATION is the treatment of people based on their belongings to a class or category rather than on individual merit.
The Constitution protects citizens from racial and religious descrimination.RACISM is the belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability. It is believing that one race is superior to another.
PREJUDICE is an adverse judgment or opinion formed unfairly or before one knows the facts; a bias. Prejudice is irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular race, religion or group.
What is Injustice?INJUSTICE is a lack of justice; unfairness; a wrong.
Literacy Tests
Prior to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1965, Southern (and some Western) states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures whose primary purpose was to deny the vote to those who were not white. In the South, this process was often referred to as a "literacy test." In fact, it was much more than a simple test, it was an entire complex system devoted to denying African-Americans (and in some regions, Latinos and Native Americans) the right to vote.
Civil Rights Movement Veterans Website
http://www.crmvet.org/index.htm
Examples of Literacy Tests
The bus driver made the black people move so the white people would have a better place to sit and Rosa Parks refused.
-- natalie 61
Some of the white government made it so the blacks could not drink from the same water fountain, sometimes they were not aloud to drink out of any fountain at all.
Cory Lyons-
In 1957 the governor of Arkansas made the National Gaurd prevent 9 students from entering the school.
-Julianne Mulvey
The ku klax klan would burn down black peoples land and hurt alot of black people.
~Jamie 61